[MD] Why are things called patterns?

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[David]
> Ideas come before hawks and mice.

I realize this is your view, but as Marsha has pointed out, for the MoQ the order is inorganic,
biological, social and intellectual spov.  

[Craig, previously]
> A hawk circles overhead, then swoops down on a mouse. How does it distinguish the mouse from
> everything else around?  By patterns.

[David]
> I can easily come back and say how do you 'know' that a hawk does that?

There have been many experiments in pattern recognition in animals, including birds.
You reject a lot of good science by holding a bad metaphysics.
Craig